Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

When a fixed code of laws, which must be observed to the letter, leaves no further care to the judge than to examine the acts of citizens and to decide whether or not they conform to the law as written; then the standard of the just or the unjust, which is to be the norm of conduct for the ignorant as well as for the philosophic citizen, is not a matter of controversy but of fact; then only are citizens not subject to the petty tyrannies of the many which are the more cruel as the distance between the oppressed and the oppressor is less, and which are far more fatal than those of a single man, for the despotism of many can only be corrected by the despotism of one; the cruelty of a single despot is proportioned, not to his might, but to the obstacles he encounters.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president from a murderous general or a beloved leader I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including of course legal despotism?

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Their poverty secured their freedom since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Equality rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood as it has been so tragically in our time it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Here Fashion is a despot and no one dreams of evading its dictates.